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1. COME to this sacrifice of ours, O
Agni, threefold, with seven threads and five divisions.
Be our oblation-bearer and preceder: thou hast
lain long enough in during darkness.
2 I come a God foreseeing from
the godless to immortality by secret pathways,
While I, ungracious one, desert the gracious,
leave mine own friends and seek the kin of strangers.
3 1, looking to the guest of
other lineage, have founded many a rule of Law and Order.
I bid farewell to the Great God, the Father,
and, for neglect, obtain my share of worship.
4 I tarried many a year within
this altar: I leave the Father, for my choice is Indra.
Away pass Agni, Varuna and Soma. Rule ever
changes: this I come to favour.
5 These Asuras have lost their
powers of magic. But thou, O Varuna, if thou dost love me,
O King, discerning truth and right from
falsehood, come and be Lord and Ruler of my kingdom.
6 Here is the light of heaven,
here allis lovely; here there is radiance, here is air's wide region.
Let us two slaughter Vrtra. Forth, O Soma! Thou
art oblation: we therewith will serve thee.
7 The Sage hath fixed his form
by wisdom in the heavens: Varuna with no violence let the waters flow.
Like women-folk, the floods that bring
prosperity have eau lit his hue and colour as they gleamed and shone.
8 These wait upon his loftiest
power and vigour: he dwells in these who triumph in their Godhead;
And they, like people who elect their ruler,
have in abhorrence turned away from Vrtra.
9 They call him Swan, the
abhorrent floods' Companion, moving in friendship with celestial Waters.
The poets in their thought have looked on Indra
swiftly approaching when Anustup calls him.
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